I sit here on the morning of what the media are calling the “first Super Blue Blood Moon Trifecta since 1866,” shaking my head a bit at the word they missed–“eclipse.” But then how many types of “first” can you say in tandem before that mouthful reaches the point of the absurd? Perhaps this is

The New York Times brought the news this morning of the death of Günter Grass, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature at the ripe age of 87 in Lübeck, Germany. Born in Danzig which is in the West Prussia section of Germany (my program located Danzig in Poland under the name of Gdansk), Grass